WMC held a press conference on the 17th of August 2011 in order to discuss the issue of “Grease Devils” which spread fear among women all over the country for several months and subjected them to a great deal of abuse. It was attended by a group of women including those from the Eastern province, … Continue reading Press Conference on the issue of “Grease Devils”
WMC held a press conference on the 17th of August 2011 in order to discuss the issue of “Grease Devils” which spread fear among women all over the country for several months and subjected them to a great deal of abuse. It was attended by a group of women including those from the Eastern province, … Continue reading Press Conference on the issue of “Grease Devils”
Following on from the ‘Global Consultation on the Application of Women’s Human Rights framework on the issues of Women in Conflict Situations’ held in Colombo in October 2010, the Colombo Group which includes WMC continued to work closely with the CEDAW Committee assisting with the elaboration of a General Recommendation to CEDAW on women and … Continue reading International Advocacy for CEDAW General Recommendation on Armed Conflict and Women
එළඹෙන පළාත් පාලන ආයතන සඳහා පැවැත්වෙන ඡුන්ද විමසීමේ දී ස්ත‍්‍රීන් සඳහා ලබාදෙන නාමයෝජනා සහ ඡුන්ද ප‍්‍රමාණය වැඩි කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියේ ක‍්‍රියාකාරකමක් වශයෙන් කාන්තාව හා මාධ්‍ය සාමූහිකය දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සාමාජිකයින් සමඟ රැුස්වීම් ගණනාවක් පැවැත් වූහ. ඉදිරියේ එළඹෙන පාළාත් පාලන ආයතන ඡුන්ද විමසීමේ දී ස්ත‍්‍රීන්ට ලබාදෙන නාමයෝජනා ප‍්‍රමාණය වැඩිකරන මෙන් පක්ෂ නායකත්වයෙන් ඉල්ලීම් කෙරිණ. ඔවුන් මුණගැසීමේ අනෙක් අරමුණ … Continue reading Meetings with members of political parties
As part of a project to increase the percentage of nominations and votes for women in the upcoming Local Government elections, WMC held several meetings with members of political parties in order to advocate the political parties and party leaders to nominate more women for the upcoming local government election. Another objective was to discuss … Continue reading Meetings with members of political parties
The activity plans of the district level member organizations of ACTFORM were discussed. The leaders from the district level organizations stated that programmes to gather domestic workers together are being carried out in Gampaha, Kurunegala, Chilaw and Kandy and they stressed the need for district level workshops to be held for their benefit. … Continue reading ACTFORM Committee Meeting
